Love's Whipping Boy; Violence & Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. First edition. 8vo. [vii], 211 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (80628). More
Literature-American
Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects; Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book: A Facsimile and Transcription
Stanford/San Marino: Stanford University Press / Huntington Library, 1989. First edition. Tall 8vo. 117 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (94698). Introduction by Milton J. Bates. More
Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects; Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book: A Facsimile and Transcription
Stanford; San Marino: Stanford University Press; Huntington Library, 1989. First edition. Tall 8vo. 117 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (95033g). Introduction by Milton J. Bates. More
Relic Master; A Novel
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. First edition. 8vo. 380 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. More
Chronology of American Literature; America's Literary Achievement from the Colonial Era to Modern times
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First edition. 4to. 805 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (90378). More
Salve • Venetia; Gleanings from Venetian History
New York: Macmillan, 1905. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: [xi], 517, [4] pp. Frontis. / v2: [x], 441, [4] pp. Frontis. Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Cloth bindings, gilt embossed lettering & cover design, spines sunned, ownership signatures, else very good set. (94910g). More
i Six Nonlectures
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. First edition. 8vo. 118 pp. Cloth binding worn and tattered dustwapper, else very good condition. (80793). More
Two Years Before the Mast; A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Los Angeles, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: [xxii], 270 pp. / v2: [vi], 276-552 pp. Illustrations by Robert A. Weinstein. Cloth bindings, in slipcase, very good set. (76959). Edited by John Haskell Kemble. More
Anathema!; Litanies of Negation
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1928. First edition. Tall 8vo. [xi], 44 pp. No. 192 of 1250 signed copies. Quarter bound papered boards, good copy. (88075). Foreword by Eugene O'Neill. More
Hieroglyphics of a New Speech; Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo. [xviii], 218 pp. 21 plates. Cloth in dustwrapper, unclipped, very good copy. (90410). More
Hieroglyphics of a New Speech; Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo. [xviii], 218 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (95107g). More
Hoosier Holiday
New York: John Lane Co., 1916. First edition, 1st state. 8vo. 513 pp. Illustrations by Franklin Booth. Cloth binding, gilt lettered, corner wear, else good copy. Page 143, line 29, The War! The War! More
The City, the Immigrant and American Fiction; 1880 - 1920
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977. First edition. 8vo. [x], 182 pp. Hardcover binding, very good condition. (98690). More
Voyageur sur la Terre
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927. First edition. 16mo. 89 pp. Softcover, printed wraps, very good copy in original glassine dustwrapper. (41942). Avec un portrait de l'auteur par Jean Cocteau. Gravé sur bois par G. Aubert. More
While There Is Time . . .
Santa Barbara, CA: Pacific Coast Publishing Co., 1962. First edition. 12mo. 19 pp. Signed on title-page. Softcover binding, printed cover, sunning, overall very good condition. (84208). More
Man Without a Country
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. First edition. 12mo. [x], 106 pp. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Decorative cloth binding, impressed gilt lettering, ownership signature, light scratch on cloth, else good copy. (94823g). More
Tarzan and Tradition; Classical Myth in Popular Literature
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. First edition. 12mo. [xv], 196 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (92389). More
Samovar; A Literary Magazine
San Diego, CA: San Diego State University, 1975-1976. First editions. 8vo. Vol. 3: 82 pp. • Vol. 4:96 pp. Photographic illustrations.Softcover bindings, illustrated covers, very good condition. (76417). More
Collected Prose
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. First edition. 8vo. [xiv], 377 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (82056). Edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. More
Writings of James Russell Lowell
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. First edition. 12mo. Eleven volumes. Approx. 300 pgs each. v1: Poems I / v2: Poems II / v3: Poems III / v4: Poems IV / v5: Literary Essays / v6: Literary Essays II / v7: Literary Essays III / v8: Literary Essay IV / v...... More
Annals of American Literature; 1602—1983
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 342 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (91124). More
Oxford Book of American Verse
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Later printing. 12mo. [lvi], 1132 pp. Cloth binding in clipped dustwrapper, else very good copy. (95139g). Chosen with an introduction by F. O. Matthiessen. More
Crosstown Sabbath; A Street Journey Through History
New York: Grove Press, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 153 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (96714). More
Journal of Albion Moonlight
New York: Padell, 1946. Fifth edition. 8vo. 313 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (43870). More
Days Before
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1952. First edition. 12mo. [x], 273 pp. Inscribed. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, minor edgewear, else good copy. (95219g). Ex Libris American poet and teacher Lee F. Gerlach. More